Schools That Learn
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares about Education
Editorial Review
The core idea of this book is simple: institutions of learning can be designed and run as learning organizations. In other words, schools can be made sustainably vital and creative, not by fiat or command or by regulation or forced rankings, but by adopting a learning orientation. This means involving everyone in the system in expressing their aspirations, building their awareness, and developing their capabilities together. In a school that learns, people who traditionally may have been suspicious of one recognize their common stake in each other’s future and the future of their community.
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Wisdom to Share
Effective school reform cannot happen until people move beyond superficial conceptions of educational systems and recognize the unseen values and attitudes.
The question of self-esteem is independent from your ability to create what most matters to you in your life.
Ironically, parents are often the most resistant to changes in the ways their children’s work is assessed.
Public engagement for schools is not really about schools. It is the first step in coming to a public judgment about values.
Teachers can make a difference here by simply letting parents speak first and at length – and by truly listening – before they present their case.
When we teach people to think, we are interested not only in the answers they know. We want to closely observe them when they don’t know the answer.
Children are particularly susceptible to emotional tension and lowered visions; they may believe adults who tell them that they can never have what they truly want.
Learning is deeply personal and inherently social; it connects us not just to knowledge in the abstract, but to each other.
Schools can be made sustainably vital and creative, not by fiat or command or by regulation or forced rankings, but by adopting a learning orientation.
Books by the same Author
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge was initially published in 1990 and it was widely received and recognized as one of most influential business books. In 1997, the book was identified by Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books. It is a bestselling classic that helped revolutionize the
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